Pope of Sandpit Lane; Lord of the Manor of Hougun; trustee @clive_ask 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️; feral franciscan; chaplain to the Guild of Nineteen Lubricators (yes really)
St Albans, UK
Joined February 2009
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I am ashamed of The Church of England.
"None of my clergy colleagues have enquired as to how I am doing. No one from the bishop’s staff on which I sit have said a word."
For absolute shame.
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And the youngest of them is how old?
The Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) for the Archbishop of Canterbury held its first meeting in London this week.
Read more at cofe.io/CNCFirstMeeting.
ALT Group of individuals posing outside Lambeth Palace.
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This week's Faith Focus in @hertsad
It’s time to say what we really mean, says @RichardFWatson of @StSaviour_StA in today’s @hertsad #FaithFocus
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Richard F Watson retweeted
Another Christmas, another Carols till Closing. It wouldn’t be Christmas without the excellent @RichardFWatson 🎄🍺
Richard F Watson retweeted
Another of the great Christmas nights out with the amazing Fr @RichardFWatson on vocals singing carols and Christmas songs for three hours. Packed pubs in St Albans. 10 nights. Unmissable. Everyone singing. One of the best Christmas nights out in the UK. #carolstilclosing
Richard F Watson retweeted
5 fixes for the Church of England.
1. Burn down the machine.
2. Woman archbishop
3. Stop swanning around the world
4. Shrink the big tent
5. Lean into the weird.
unherd.com/2024/11/burn-down…
Richard F Watson retweeted
Why has NO other Bishop come out I. Support of Bp Helen Ann Hartley?
What -or who - are they afraid of?
Whose interests are being served here?
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I’m nervous about calls for @JustinWelby to resign. What is needed is not a scalp but a wholesale change of culture in the church.
To build a safer church we need an end to deference, secrecy, tribalism, and bullying in the House of Bishops. Most local clergy understand this.
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Rabbi Adam of @StAlbansMasorti writes about a #StAlbans project bringing faith leaders together, in today’s @hertsad #FaithFocus @RichardFWatson
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It’s Sunday Morning & I’ll be on the 📻 from 8am @Mix926official
Special guest at 10.20 @RichardFWatson from @StSaviour_StA talking #beerandfizz
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#Hertfordshire #WakeUp #Sunday #Breakfast @WineCellarDoor @eyesonstalbans @Hospicstfrancis @savestapubs
Richard F Watson retweeted
Very pleased to be a signatory, along with a number of others, of this letter on LLF spearheaded by Together for the Church of England.
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All the usual suspects who know what is going on and normally rule out a general election are silent. This is ominous.
Number 10 is packed with the Press getting drenched in a summer down pour.
"What will energize traditional Anglicans is a vision of their incorporation in the mystical body, which intensifies and renders theological the life they already understand as being in community.
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The fact that we are sinful creatures who fail in manifesting this vision is an impetus to recalling us to this truth and not a denial of it" @AlisonMilbank #onceandfuture
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'Like freshly-admitted convert Candace Owens, we’ll be hearing of Russell at the Brompton Oratory next, clad, perhaps, in the sackcloth and ashes of a conservative blazer and tie.'
✍️ Jane Stannus spectator.co.uk/article/why-…
